| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, annual reports and accounts and funding requests relating to the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (RSF) in Britain. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Reconciliation Programme. Applicant overview: The Religious Society of Friends is a Christian denomination founded in the seventeenth century. In legal terms it is a charity for the advancement of religion that is exempted from registration by virtue of statutory instrument. Britain Yearly Meeting is the final constitutional authority of the RSF in Great Britain. Its membership consists of all those who belong to the Monthly Meetings in Great Britain. The purpose of the central work of the Yearly Meeting of the RSF in Britain is to uphold and serve Friends in their worshipping groups and their corporate leadings so that all Quaker witness is strengthened. Nature of support: In 1992 the Trust offered a single block grant of £5,000 to support the committees for Quaker Peace and Service (QPS), Quaker Home Service (QHS) and Quaker Social Responsibility and Education (QSRE). In 1994 the Trust approved a further block grant of £10,000. In 1996 a further block grant was approved at £5,000 in the anticipation that any further applications would be for specific projects and referred to the Justice and Peace Programme. Minutes: BCT 16, BCT 49, BCT 284, B&GSCT 7538, B&GSCT 7619, RP 19/94. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/1/4'. |